grammatron | phon:e:me | filmtext | codework | chromohack | immobilité
  Immobilité, the first release in Mark Amerika's new Foreign Film Series, had its premiere exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum in April/May 2009. The work was featured at the Tate museum website in Fall 2008. His two most recent books are META/DATA (The MIT Press, 2007) and 29 Inches (Chiasmus Press, 2007). Amerika's Mobile Phone Video Art Classics was on exhibit in London in 2007 where he also delivered a keynote address at the "Disrupting Narratives" symposium at the Tate Modern. The work was also featured in his 2008 solo show at the Experimental Arts Foundation. A 2008 solo exhibition of his VJ-inspired digital artwork took place in Seoul. His DVD with surround sound installations are CHROMO HACK which premiered at Techno Sublime and CODEWORK . Other projects include Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) from DJRABBI, 24 Hour Count, and Passagen Work.   Mark Amerika has exhibited his work in many museums, galleries, festivals, and public spaces including the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the American Museum of the Moving Image (New York), the Walker Art Center, the Chelsea Art Museum, the FILMWINTER Festival of Expanded Media (Stuttgart), transmediale (Berlin), the "Blur of the Otherworldly" exhibition at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC, the Event Gallery, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens) where he will have a retrospective exhibition of his work in the fall of 2009. He is author of the cult novels The Kafka Chronicles (Black Ice Books) and Sexual Blood (Black Ice Books) as well a series of experimental artist ebooks including How To Be An Internet Artist and his most recent release The Postproduction of Presence: A Director's Notebook.   Mark Amerika's net art trilogy, consisting of GRAMMATRON, PHON:E:ME, and FILMTEXT, is still available online and can be accessed via his two seminal net art retrospectives in London and Tokyo, or via the links above. Amerika's most recent books are META/DATA, a collection of artist writings published with MIT Press, and 29 Inches, a literary novel that remixes spam email with classic literature. You can check out his net art here and his many books here. The Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) is part of the DJRABBI collective. Amerika's current work-in-progress is the Foreign Film Series, a collection of feature-length films shot on various media including HDV and mobile phone. His in-progress book of artist writings and theories is tentatively entitled Remixology: On Becoming A Postproduction Medium, an investigation of what it means to be a postproduction artist.

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